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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 588092, member: 4381&quot;]Very intelligent answer but I have a few counter points to make.&nbsp; First, the St Guald is a very unoriginal design lifted off &quot;Liberty Leading the People&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;by Eugène Delacroix and in fact, I find the design actually very non-reflective of American Republic.&nbsp; In addition, the details and execution I believe are very rough, and not nearly as well thought out as the SLQ.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the thought that the walls make Liberty look squeezed in the SLQ, I can understand how you come to that impression.&nbsp; However, I think the device is actually very cleaver in that it slims down Liberty&#039;s posture and view while the stairs gives her a realistic pose that enhances the overall composition.&nbsp; The rim design of dots and dashes is daring and wasn&#039;t easy to pull off, and the overall design, while echoing to the Victorian, is a bit busy in the Victorian artistic tradition,&nbsp; have much greater illusion of depth that the Guald or Walking Half accomplishes, with a far more naturalistic pose.&nbsp; There would never be a high relief SLQ.&nbsp; It just isn&#039;t necessary because artistically it is just more sound in the portraiture of and creation of space and depth.&nbsp; In fact, the Walker looks outright unnatural as a stance and the artistic talent of McNeil over Weissman in the in the composition of the full figure in motion can be clearly seen.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the reverse, of the three eagles, IMO, the SLQ Eagle is the greatest ever put on a coin.&nbsp; The Walker&#039;s Eagle, IMO, is over exuberant and almost iconographic and the reverse of the St Guald Eagle, while baring a close theme to the obverse art deco like design, is far less graceful than the SLQ Eagle which is probably only surpassed by the Sac Eagle such as in my Icon.&nbsp; The SLQ Reverse has an Eagle that genuinely feels like it is in flight and is balanced perfectly on the coin, with the center of gravity squarely below the midline enhancing the illusion of powerful and graceful lift.</p><p><br /></p><p>One more word about the St Guald design...to me it looks like Liberty playing Godzilla and trampling over Washington.&nbsp; I expect to see her breath fire and for the horses to scatter as she marches forward.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben</p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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